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Critical regionalism : connecting politics and culture in the American landscape / / Douglas Reichert Powell



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Autore: Reichert Powell Douglas Visualizza persona
Titolo: Critical regionalism : connecting politics and culture in the American landscape / / Douglas Reichert Powell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
Disciplina: 911/.75
Soggetto topico: Regionalism - United States
Politics and culture - United States
Regionalism - Appalachian Region, Southern
Regionalism - Tennessee - Johnson City
Politics and culture - Appalachian Region, Southern
Politics and culture - Tennessee - Johnson City
American literature - History and criticism
Film criticism - United States
Soggetto geografico: Appalachian Region, Southern Politics and government
Appalachian Region, Southern Geography
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: There's Something about Mary: The Practice of Critical Regionalism; 1. Rhetorics of Place and Region: An Appalachian Trail; 2. From the Playground to the Dumping Ground: Making Regional Connections in Unlikely Places; 3. Panoramas of Gore and Other Social Inventions: Region on Film; 4. We Have Only Words Against: Toward a Critical Regionalist Literature; 5. Scholar Holler: Critical Regionalism and the University; Epilogue: There's Something about Mary (Reprise): Mrs. Edwards and Me; Appendix: Durham Stories; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
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Sommario/riassunto: The idea of ""region"" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for ""hicks,"" certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers alternatives to it.Reichert Powell proposes using more nuanced strategies that identify distinctive aspects of particular geographically marginal communities without turning them into peculiar ""hick
Titolo autorizzato: Critical regionalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908734-6-0
1-4696-0674-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809492303321
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